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SHARON GREEN/WWW.ULTIMATESAILING.COM ROLEX BIG BOAT SERIES "When you tell people you have a Cal 40, they light up and say, 'Ohhh.'" The battle for second went to Steve Waterloo's Shaman, which pulled away from Rodney Pimentel's Azure in the final races of the regatta. Melges 32 The Melges 32s were sailing for their U.S. National Championships; unfortunately you wouldn't know it, given that only five entries showed for the regatta. With the class' World Championships beginning in Sardinia a week-and-a-half later, the deck was stacked against the class' chance of matching last year's total of nine entries that included two European teams. But the lack of entries didn't translate into ho-hum racing. Mill Valley's Don Jesberg and his all-corinthian team on Viva — which had won the seven-boat North Americans held earlier in the week at Sausalito YC — battled with Andy Lovell and Burton Benrud's Louisianabased Rougarou. Rougarou finished strong, posting a pair of bullets on Saturday to pull away and finish three points clear of Viva. Stephen Pugh's Sausalito-based Taboo rounded out the top-three, another three points behind Viva. With 45 years under its belt, the '09 Rolex Big Boat Series proved the regatta can hold its own no matter what's Page 96 • Latitude 38 • October, 2009 Andy Costello's Pt. Richmond-based J/125 'Double Trouble' screams downwind. happening in the greater economic context. It also proved that IRC can do the same, and while there are some areas that could use improvement, many people — whether they like the rule or not — agree that it's working better than anything that preceded it. Count IRC D winner Gerry Sheridan among them: "I think IRC is saving big boat racing around the world," he said. "It's giving a new sense of purpose to racing and serious big boat campaigns. Handicap racing is never perfect, but this is close to perfect." Newly-crowned National Champion Mitchell agreed: "I like it, and not because we won," he said. "With IRC, your boat's not obsolete every year. I didn’t design it as a stripped-out boat; it has a proper galley, cherry-wood floors, benches in the cockpit for when I take my dad and friends sailing, plus it's comfortable for distance races." Yet another division winner, Dan Woolery, pointed out that despite the success he's had with Soozal, there are still some areas in the administration of the rule — which in the 45- to 50-ft range begins to favor lighter displacement, more power, and planing hull forms — that need work. "Most of the sailing venues around the U.S. typically feature less breeze than the planing conditions we get here in Northern California," Woolery said. "The planing verses non-planing attributes of the 50-plus footers become an issue for the equity in IRC. When racing in all kinds of wind conditions over this past year against the typical IRC boat — the racer/ cruiser, the medium displacement boat with legitimate headroom, a real head, a galley, berths, water tanks and so on — we had many occasions where places were determined by just a few, or 20 to 30 seconds — which is pretty close after two hours of racing. The results of this year's Big Boat Series show that all of the TP 52’s, even the last-placed boat, corrected out ahead of anyone in our fleet. To make a good rating rule even better, there should be some accommodation to level the playing field, if combining all these types of boats together into an overall regatta format is the goal." With so many great stories to tell, and not enough space, we were forced to make a difficult decision: run more awesome photos, or a blue box with tiny type inside, that esssentially duplicates the body of the story? We chose the former, and hope you're happy. But if you want to see the full results, video and images from the '09 Rolex Big Boat Series, all you have to do is visit: www.big-boatseries.com. latitude/rg
GO FASTER! GET 'EASOMIZED' Congratulations to Gerard Sheridan & the crew of 'Tupelo Honey', winners of IRC D. SHARON GREEN PHOTO Rolex Big Boat Series IRC C Winners King 40 'Soozal' Easom Racing & Rigging wants to thank Dan & Suzie Woolery for bringing us aboard Soozal for an incredible 2009 Racing Season. Soozal is an 'Easomized' production King 40. Starting with winning Key West, then winning the Miami Grand Prix, winning the Jamaica Race, and finally winning the SF IRC Championship, Soozal became the dominant 40-ft IRC boat in the world. No other production King 40 or even custom 40-ft IRC boat could touch the record of this IRC champion. Clearly a first class operation from top to bottom, and Easom was proud to play a part. Want to go faster? Get 'Easomized' this winter! Easom Racing and Rigging www.easomrigging.com 1150 Brickyard Cove Rd. Suite B1 Point Richmond, CA 94801 (510) 232-SAIL (7245) October, 2009 • Latitude 38 • Page 97
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